“It had absolutely everything going for it as a tabloid perfect storm," said former Daily News editor Sam Roberts of the madness that enveloped Manhattan as the so-called "Son of Sam" stalked the streets.
Items coined as "murderabilia" range from artwork to fingernail clippings of serial murderers. Victim advocate Andy Kahan wants to stop criminals from profiting off their crimes.
Journalist Maury Terry was convinced the "Son of Sam" killings were the work of a nationwide Satanic cult and he became fixated on a group known as The Process.
One of David Berkowitz's fellow inmates claimed he'd been told the final “Son of Sam” killing was in fact meant to be a snuff film — possibly for a notorious producer with a penchant for wild parties and mondo movies.
When David Berkowitz was arrested for a string of seemingly random murders in 1977, New York City breathed a collective sigh of relief, but for Maury Terry, the lone gunman narrative never added up.
True crime lovers checking out "Sons of Sam," a new docuseries on the David Berkowitz case and journalist Maury Terry's theories about it, may recognize the narrator's voice.
After David Berkowitz's confession, in the very early 1980s, a new and destructive phenomenon that has now lasted decades was creeping across the United States.
Arlis Perry, a 19-year-old newlywed, was found brutally murdered inside a Stanford University church on Oct. 13, 1974 and David Berkowitz once claimed to have known who killed her.
